Photo Essay Rationale- Olivia Burke and Mitchell Jarvis
In order to explore the everyday aesthetic we decided on the theme “Litter” to evoke a sense of ephemera and dedicate our photography to capture this everyday, mundane and unnoticed part of society. The decision for bottles as a sub theme came from our observations of the most littered object we found around our suburbs. This subtheme was also in favour due to its diversity in colour, size, shape, texture and everyday quality, allowing our photo-shoot to show the effects the “authentic wear and tear have on them” (Murray, 155). We shot our photos in a variety of everyday locations, including beaches, parks, alleyways, public bathrooms and bus stops to highlight this notion of everyday as well as everywhere aesthetic. In taking out this photo shoot we came to discover the ignorance and neglect for litter and bottles in our local community, many of which were scattered all over the beach. Our vision for the essay is to highlight the beauty in this very mundane and socially “ugly” aspect of society by a judicious use of the iPhoto editing tools and iMovie presentation. The choice of photographs came from choosing those with bright colour, textural appeal and strong focus in order to “locate beauty in the mundane” (Murray, 155). In producing the photo essay we wanted the focus to be on the photos so to balance this we chose minimal transitions and rather just edited lighting and colour saturation to brighten and highlight our photos to be striking and picturesque of not only the bottles but also their habitats and our beautiful Central Coast surroundings. We are very happy with the end product of this photo essay and feel we have successfully acknowledged and explored the notion of the everyday aesthetic in an evocative and creative piece.
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